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I recall a newspaper story about a Black writer who did not know his ancestry. He took a genetic test to find out he was more native American than black. He told his mother who responded "I'm too old to stop being a black woman."

I think that is an understandable feeling and I think that says a lot about the concept of race. Her statement doesn't make race any less real, but it does indicate what race IS.




Your comment made me remember this short reportage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9mtCLL8rI0

Culture is definitely the major part of 'race'.


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I don't think that's what they were arguing:

> Her statement doesn't make race any less real, but it does indicate what race IS.




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